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At the Allen Institute, discovery is a team effort.

From brain mappers to cell biologists, from immunologists to AI engineers, our people and teams are building the resources, tools, and discoveries that accelerate science for everyone.

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Lenina Arenas-Fuentes

Chief of Staff

Christopher Beaudoin

Chief Operating Officer

Rui Costa

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ruwanthi (Ru) Gunawardane

Executive Vice President and Director, Cell Science

Julie Harris

Vice President, Science Initiatives

Andrew Hickl

Chief Technology Officer

Susan Kaech

Executive Vice President and Director, Immunology

Ed Lein

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Health

Meg McClellan

Vice President and General Counsel

Sarah Norris Hall

Chief Financial Officer

Rob Piercy

Vice President, Communications & Impact

Jay Shendure

lead scientific director of AI BioDesign, scientific director of the UW Medicine Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, scientific director of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

Petra Smith

Vice President, People and Culture

Karel Svoboda

Executive Vice President and Director, Neural Dynamics

Arden Yang

Vice President, Innovation

Hongkui Zeng

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Science

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David W. Piston, Ph.D

Washington University in St. Louis

Kaspar Podgorski, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Thomas Pollard, M.D.

Yale University

Scientific Project Coordinator II

Cindy Poo, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Jennifer Prescher, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

Kelly Priestley, CPA CA

Lucia Prieto-Godino, Ph.D.

Francis Crick Institute

Associate Director, Project Management Office

Meagan Quinlan, Ph.D.

Omar A. Quintero-Carmona, Ph.D.

Senior Education Advisor

Scientific Data Engineer I

Victoria Rachleff, Ph.D. candidate

Susanne Rafelski, Ph.D.

Sr. Director, Quantitative Biology

Abhe Rajagopal, Ph.D.

Senior AI Research Scientist

Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D.

Harvard University

Scientific and Alliance Project Manager

Senior Manager, Research Compliance

Research Associate III

Priya Ravisankar

Research Associate, Sr.

Julian Reading, B.Sc Hons

Interim Associate Director, High Resolution Biology

Ashton Reece, MS

Research Associate Supervisor

David Reich, Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

People & Culture Partner III, Engagement

Irene Rembado, Ph.D.

Research Associate III

Laboratory Animal Services

Megan Riel-Mehan, Ph.D.

Christine Rimorin

Research Associate III

Michael Ringenburg, Ph.D., MBA

Associate Director of Data Architecture

Brock Roberts, Ph.D.

Scott J. Rodig, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

Ines Rodrigues-Vaz, Ph.D.

Jafet Rodriguez La Paz

Research Associate II

Sam Rodriques, Ph.D.

Francis Crick Institute

Scientific Data Engineer II

Kara Ronellenfitch

Sr. Manager, Transgenic Colony Management

Community Programming, ERG Project Manager

Research Associate II

Research Associate II

Mara Rue, Ph.D.

Research Associate, Sr.

Ueli Rutishauser, Ph.D.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Joseph F. Ryan, Ph.D.

University of Florida

Executive Assistant

Krishanu Saha, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Raymond Sanchez, Ph.D

Product Manager II

Laura Sanchez, Ph.D.

University of California, Santa Cruz

Neville Sanjana, Ph.D.

New York Genome Center & New York University

Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D.

University of Colorado at Boulder

Administrative Coordinator III

Adam Savage, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Mikhail Savitski, Ph.D.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Software Engineer III

Research Associate, Sr.

Sandra Schmid, Ph.D.

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Matthew Schmitz, Ph.D.

Casey Schneider-Mizell, Ph.D.

Investigator, Assistant

Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Carl Schoonover, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Susan R. Schwab, Ph.D.

SW Engineer III

Rebecca Scott, MBA

Associate Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Stephanie Seeman, Ph.D.

Senior Manager, Research Systems & Architecture

Data Analyst II

Frank Sellinger, M.B.A.

Sr. Director, Information Technology

Aditi Sengupta, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Karen Serrano, Ph.D.

Data Scientist I

Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Ph.D.

Manager, Computer Vision

Nika Shakiba, Ph.D.

University of British Columbia

Nadiya Shapovalova

Research Associate Sr. Supervisor

Administrative Coordinator III

Bilal Sheikh, Ph.D.

Helmholtz Munich

Fatwir Sheikh Mohammed

Data Scientist I

Karthik Shekhar, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Shelton, Ph.D.

Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D.

lead scientific director of AI BioDesign, scientific director of the UW Medicine Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, scientific director of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

Margaret A. Shipp, M.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Leila Shiraiwa, B.S.

Senior Manager, Laboratory Operations

Director, Machine Learning

Josh Siegle, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Robert Signer, Ph.D.

University of California San Diego

Daniel Silbergeld, M.D.

Mansi Singh, BS, MSc

Bioinformatics Analyst I

Irika Sinha, Ph.D.

Peter Skene, Ph.D.

Sr. Director, Scientific Shared Resources and Scientific Technology

Sarah Slavoff, Ph.D.

Yale University

Nikolai Slavov, Ph.D.

Northeastern University

Director, Molecular Biology

Petra Smith, J.D.

Vice President, People and Culture

System Design Engineer III

Heather Snell, Ph.D.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Research Associate I, Cell Culture Automation and Imaging

Dominique Soldato

Senior Administrative Coordinator

SW Engineer III

Saroja Somasundaram, M.S.

Bioinformatics Analyst II

Staci Sorensen, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Neuroanatomy

Crystal Stanfield

Sr. Director, Integrated Talent Strategy

science done differently. shared openly.

explore our accelerators

brain science

Mapping every cell, connection, and circuit in the brain—openly shared with the world.

cell science

Decoding how cells become tissues, then programming that knowledge into powerful new research tools.

neural dynamics

Revealing the brain's hidden algorithms that transform neural activity into real-world behavior.

immunology

Creating the deepest open reference for the healthy human immune system ever built.

synthetic biology

Engineering cells to record their own histories, transforming how we understand disease over time.

ai biodesign

Advancing evolution to explore biology’s full design space and advance human health

Brain Health

Accelerating human brain research and new therapeutic strategies for neurological conditions

research

Big questions, open answers, and science built to be shared.

education

Inspiring the next generation of scientists through open science resources.

impact

Our science is empowering researchers and advancing health worldwide.